Main Entry: sot·to vo·ce

Pronunciation: "sä-tO-'vO-chE Function: adverb or adjective Etymology: Italian sottovoce, literally, under the voice1: under the breath : in an undertone; also: in a private manner2: very softly -- used as a direction in music

Tuesday, September 28, 2004

call home | paris, 2004

that i have.

Call Home
Paris, September 22, 2004

In three hours, Paris will simple be
and we, we will be gone, our tea cups
dry, our linens stacked, bags packed.
We leave, the heart of the bed faintly…
still… of love. We journey home to a land
that even now is still foreign.
Still, my tall and pale tapers
burn, waxed and white with holiness
They spark from Notredame to Sacre
Coeur, bridge our return, we go step-
-to-step, arm hooked in arm this park,
this air, this sky, this day, this path,
this Paris, this place that we now
call home.